cav: Heart transplant monitoring data

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Heart transplant monitoring data

Description

A series of approximately yearly angiographic examinations of heart transplant recipients. The state at each time is a grade of cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV), a deterioration of the arterial walls.

Usage

cav

Format

This data frame has 2846 rows and 10 columns.There are 622 patients, the rows are grouped by patient number and ordered by years after transplant, with each row representing an examination and containing additional covariates.

PTNUM

Patient identification number

age

Recipient age at examination (years)

years

Examination time (years after transplant)

dage

Age of heart donor (years)

sex

sex (0=male, 1=female)

pdiag

Primary diagnosis (reason for transplant)HD=ischaemic heart disease, IDC=idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy.

cumrej

Cumulative number of acute rejection episodes

state

State at the examination.State 1 represents no CAV, state 2 is mild/moderate CAV and state 3 is severe CAV. State 4 indicates death.

firstobs

0 = record represents an angiogram or date of death. 1 = record represents transplant (patient's first observation)

statemax

Maximum observed state so far for this patient (added in version 1.5.1)

Source

Papworth Hospital, U.K.

References

Sharples, L.D. and Jackson, C.H. and Parameshwar, J. and Wallwork, J. and Large, S.R. (2003). Diagnostic accuracy of coronary angiopathy and risk factors for post-heart-transplant cardiac allograft vasculopathy. Transplantation 76(4):679-82

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